DramaFeedDrama Short Dramas
1,984 short dramas in Drama — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
Results
What Doesn't Break MeTaylor's older brother works for her and has no idea who she is.
She grew up poor in the countryside. She was accepted to MIT, and her father and her older brother tore up the acceptance letter and sold her to an old rich man for cash. Her mother and her younger sister got her out of the house, and she lost contact with both of them after that.
Years later she is the richest person in the world. She goes back home and finds her mother has been beaten and her sister has been sold off by the brother. She turns up at the welcome banquet held for the world's top CEO, and her brother, looking at a woman he does not recognize, calls her a whore in front of the other guests. She has to prove who she is before she can get anywhere near finding her sister.
Out of Prison... No Son, No WifeZhou Lei is out of prison after ten years, let out early for good behavior. He goes back to his hometown to find his wife, Li Yuan, and their son, who was small when Zhou Lei went in. In all that time there has been no word from Li Yuan or her family. It is his mother-in-law who tells him that Li Yuan settled in the county town some time ago and has married again. Zhou Lei is left in his hometown with no family and no idea where to go next.
I Sent My Mom on a Blind DateJoy is a successful woman, but to her mother, Camila, she's just a "leftover" daughter in desperate need of marriage. After a car accident, Joy wakes up in 1994. Determined to give her mother a taste of her own medicine, Joy drags her to blind dates, only to realize love isn't so simple. As Camila faces two suitors and relentless family pressure, Joy begins to wonder if her own existence should matter less than her mother's happiness until a shocking truth reveals she was never Camila's biological daughter at all.
Don't Mess with a Prep School PrincessSierra Lane thought she was getting her life back when she was finally released from juvie after taking the fall for her boyfriend, Jake. Instead, she’s met with a shocking truth: she’s the long-lost Lancaster Heiress, heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the country. Armed with a new identity and eager to reclaim her place at Hawthorne Prep, Sierra returns to school, ready to share the news. But instead of a warm welcome, she finds that Jake has moved on with her ex-best friend, Fallon. Even worse, Fallon has already been telling everyone that she and the heiress are best friends, making Sierra’s arrival a direct threat to Fallon's reign as queen bee of the school. As Sierra battles relentless gossip, sabotage, and an entire school that wants her sent back to juvie, she’ll have to prove she’s exactly who she says she is before Fallon destroys her reputation for good.
Love Like a Sour CandyAbigail has been kept hidden away by her uncle Victor, who sees her as a harbinger of misfortune. Desperate to revive his failing business, Victor plans to use her as a pawn in his schemes. Trapped like a puppet, Abigail sees no escape. However, the arrival of Adrian brings a glimmer of hope and the possibility of change.
Falling DeepAsuna works as a civil servant and takes the job seriously. Her boss harasses her sexually at the office, and at home her parents put pressure on her and think mostly of themselves. At this point she cannot understand how anyone could fall for a host. Then she meets Rui, a host with the manner of a puppy, and the time she spends with him takes the pressure off the rest of her life. She starts going back.
The visits eat through her money until she has 70,000 yen left and her credit cards have been suspended, and from there she lives on borrowed money that keeps growing. Whenever he smiles at her she thinks it has been worth it. Her feeling for him turns by degrees into something that is as much hatred as love, and she goes on seeing him.
Win Their Hearts, Forge Your FateThe war has been going long enough that ordinary people are mostly just surviving it. Baz Lee is a farmer past fifty.
A system fastens onto him and starts turning his age back. It works through marriage, and over this stretch of his life he meets several women who stay with him.
Yasmine Lynch is a general. She has been badly wounded and is living under a name that is not hers. She and Baz strike a deal. She dresses as a man, he goes in beside her, and the two of them get inside an army camp. Baz starts there as one more farmer in the ranks and works upward from that toward a command of his own.
Awakened BrideFive years into her "marriage", Queenie Saad discovers a devastating secret: Yosef Gray's legal wife is his first love, Vivian Lynch, and they have a daughter together. Reflecting on her sacrifices, including severing ties with her family, Queenie realizes Yosef's heart never left Vivian.
Shattered but resolute, Queenie files for divorce and reveals Yosef and Vivian's hidden affair. Embracing a fresh start, she marries her childhood friend, Chris Jones. Only then does Yosef realize his mistake, but it's too late...
When the Bell TollsEthan Chase, striving to build his career in the bustling city, becomes increasingly absorbed in his work and his relationship with Lilian White, the daughter of a wealthy family. As his focus shifts away from his hometown, he begins to neglect his roots. One day, his sister, Evelyn Chase, desperately calls to inform him that their mother has fallen gravely ill. However, Ethan misses the call due to an important business meeting.
Fate Restarted: I Found My Mom a Perfect HusbandA daughter denied education in a son-first household tries to escape with her mother, only to watch her father's violence kill the woman at the station before she follows her into an icy river. She awakens in 1980 with her mother alive and uses the second chance to pursue college, justice, and a safer future for them both.
The Demolition WarNova's cousin claims ownership of the house where she and her children have lived rent-free for ten years. The demand comes just as Nova's daughter brings millions home to build roads and raise the land's value. Years of help with food and school fees now count for nothing as the cousin refuses to move without the deed.
Park Avenue Girls Don't Play NiceWhen Anna Sinclair is cheated out of a prestigious art scholarship in Paris, her only chance to escape her abusive parents, she reinvents herself as a glamorous New York socialite to catch the eye of rich kid Preston Kingsley and secure a second shot at her dreams. But things get complicated when she starts to fall for Preston’s best friend, Brooks Whitmore, Upper East Side royalty and the biggest threat to exposing Anna's true identity. Will her secret turn Brooks against her, or will it bring them the happy ending that neither of them saw coming?
After the FallWhitney Stone and Jonsen Grant's five-year romance shatters when Whitney uncovers Jonsen's secret IUI with his dying benefactor, Daisy Lynn, just before their wedding. Heartbroken, Whitney cancels the wedding and dives into her research, while Jonsen, seeking answers, discovers Whitney was his savior six years prior. As he attempts to win her back, Whitney finds new purpose and love in her work.
I Am the Dragon MotherTwenty years ago Eric's business failed and his wife walked out and left him with three small children. Quinley, an old friend of his, ran into him by chance and began helping in the house. The two became a couple. She gave up the life she had before and stayed. Over the years she raised the three children to adulthood and worked alongside Eric until his business recovered.
After twenty years the ex-wife came back. The children sided with their birth mother, and the family put Quinley out. Quinley cut off contact with all of them.
The family business then ran into trouble. The ex-wife did none of the work of a mother or a wife in the house. Eric and the children went looking for Quinley and tried to bring her back. By then she had moved away and started over.
The Betrayed Mother is the Divine HeiressLena Sinclair was High Strategos of the Order of Aegis, and heir to the divine legacy of Athena, when a fire took her son Lucas. She watched it happen and could not reach him. Not long afterward a hospital burned, and Lena went into the building herself and carried seven infants out of the intensive care unit. She raised all seven as her own and left public power behind, hiding what she had been for twenty-five years while she quietly cleared the way for each of them. They grew into men at the very top of their fields, none of them aware how much of that was her doing. Then their birth parents surfaced and told them Lena had stolen them as babies. The seven believed it. They called her a trafficker, and at the banquet for her fiftieth birthday they presented her with a coffin and told her to end her own life in front of them. Lena cut every tie that day. She took back everything she had given them, piece by piece, so that they stood as ordinary men with nothing behind them, and she spared them anyway. The seven blamed her for their collapse and decided she had conspired with Collin Cruz, her old second in command, to ruin them.
Crimson HeiressZelda runs a business empire. Her younger brother Isaac and her husband Zander lie to her, and on the strength of what they tell her she signs the whole of it over to Yasmina, the woman at Isaac's side. Once Yasmina has the business she begins an affair with Zander. Then she brings about Zelda's death.
Zelda comes back to life at a time before any of it has happened, and she remembers all of it. At her engagement party she announces in front of the guests that she will not be marrying Zander. As head of the family she bars Yasmina from joining it and makes public what is going on between Yasmina and Zander. Yasmina had counted on marrying into the family's money.
Isaac will not hear a word against her. He goes on trusting Yasmina, and Zelda has to take a harder line to make him see what Yasmina is doing.
Her Double, His TroubleErin and Elise are identical twins who were separated as children and grew up apart. Twenty years later Elise is married to Damien and close to her friend Selene, and the two of them turn on her. She is tortured and thrown off a cliff. She disappears without a trace and is taken for dead.
Erin comes back from abroad to avenge her younger sister. She is a chief executive, and what she decides to do is step into Elise's life and pass as her. Damien and the people who helped him watch her and wait for a mistake.
Elise is alive. Her face was destroyed and amnesia took the memories that mattered, and she has reconstructive surgery. She still believes the love was real, so she works her way home, and she finds another woman living her life. It is Erin, the twin she does not remember. Elise turning up cuts across Erin's plan, and Damien and Selene use that to set the sisters against each other.
Cooking My Way Back to LoveThe death of his wife reduces legendary chef Leon Kennedy to a homeless widower with only his dog Dante beside him. A restaurant owner unknowingly gives the former 'King of Cooking' a place in the kitchen, where Leon hides his talent beneath sous-chef Bryant's abuse until businessman William threatens the restaurant. His brilliant comeback provokes Bryant's slander and William's fatal attack on Dante, leaving Leon to take up his knife with revenge replacing the joy he had begun to recover.
Your Time Is UpCole Collins met Madelyn Rogers when her car hit him. He delivered food and she ran Xs Corp, and what he came away from the accident with was the ability to see a countdown over every person's head showing how much life they had left. Madelyn's was nearly finished. He told her she was about to be killed and she did not believe him.
That same day he took an order up to a hotel room and found his wife there with the man she had been seeing. The two of them humiliated him. Madelyn came in while it was going on, the thing Cole had seen coming arrived with her, and he got her clear of it.
Afterwards he dealt with his wife and her lover in public. He started appraising antiques and betting on uncut jade, took a rich man who had pushed him around for everything in one of those bets, and turned old pieces into money. Women who had looked past him at the door began to notice him.
Love Under ContractJennifer Sullivan is a lawyer, and she passes what she hears to Isaac Marks. That was his condition. She had gone to him because her sister's bills came to more than she could pay, and her sister was the only one who got out of the fire that killed the rest of the family.
The fire had been set. Jennifer keeps at the question of who set it during the time she is working for Isaac. What is between the two of them turns into something other than the arrangement they made. The Sullivans and the Marks family have an old quarrel that neither side has put down.
Oops! I Fell for the Cursed Male LeadAfter being transported into a novel, the heroine survives as a "misfortune absorber," saving the unlucky hero from an accident, only for him to think she's a schemer. She juggles multiple jobs to absorb bad luck, uses her healing skills to win over his grandfather, and fend off his doubts. She also sparks a chaotic, love-hate romance with the very man who won't trust her.
His Brother's WifeIn a marriage marked by neglect, Regina is sidelined by her husband, Marlon. Three years in, Marlon is diagnosed with a terminal illness with only ten months to live. Suddenly, his mistress arrives with his only child, confident of securing her place. Just as she believes victory is hers, Regina returns with a surprise — an heir from a fateful night with Marlon's brother, Jared. As Regina prepares to reclaim her position as the lady of the Stanton family, the true father of her child opens her door up at night...
The Beast on Her LeashEliza takes the president's job at Evertech AI for a reason she has given nobody there. Vincent killed her parents, and it is Vincent's father who offers her the company, which puts her close enough to the family to look for evidence.
The father attaches a condition before she signs. She is also to take his youngest son Ryder in hand and make something civil out of him. Ryder is wild and will not be managed, and the two of them are at each other most of the time. They are in the same house through all of it, and Ryder falls in love with her. Eliza works out that she feels it too, and then pushes him off, because the case against Vincent is what she came for.
Rewritten VowsAurora Quinn loved Oscar Russel, but he and his sister Luna betrayed her. After death, she learns Oscar’s brother, Lucian, was her true protector. Reborn, she returns to the moment Sir Russel asks her to choose a husband and picks Lucian. Oscar keeps scheming but at the wedding Lucian exposes him onstage. In the end, Sir Russel revives and expels Oscar, while Aurora and Lucian start anew.
The Broken TriangleChristian Shadforth sold his entire stake in the company and went home to accept the marriage his family had arranged for him.
He had spent five years building that company from nothing with two women he had known since childhood, both of whom had once said they would marry him or nobody. A man had joined the firm two months earlier and both women took to him. Christian had been drinking over company business and brought up blood; when the new hire's account of things went against his, the two of them took the new hire's word. That was when he went to his family. The women assumed he was angry for the moment and would come back, on the reasoning that he would not walk away from the company or from them. The next thing they got from him was a wedding invitation.
Miss You After GoodbyeNeil repays a debt to Keira's father by agreeing to a five-year secret marriage meant to help Keira recover from first love Simon. Neil gives the union real devotion, but Keira continues treating him as Simon's replacement. When the contract ends he leaves for good, and only then does Keira understand the husband she searches the world for has already chosen a future without her.
Queen Mom RulesThe party is for her parents' wedding anniversary and the family is all there. One of the women in the room runs a company, and nobody present knows it. They take her for a nobody from a low family, and the diamond she has brought as a gift is called a fake. She is kept away from the table. Her three sons are business magnates and they are on their way to the party, and nobody knows who they are either.
Fate Rekindled at the HotelCecilia abandons her engagement after discovering her fiancé's betrayal and escaping a family willing to trade her future for status. A chance night with Springfield heir Chris leaves her pregnant, and the resort where she tries to rebuild her career soon belongs to him. His relentless pursuit complicates her fight for independence, but Cecilia earns her place in the hotel on her own ability as their attraction deepens.
The Unstoppable Heiress ReturnsTen years after Yancy Stuart vanished in a tragic hiking accident, her brother Jeffery finally found her, only to learn she had no memory of him. When Jeffery rescued Yancy from an abusive boyfriend, they agreed to reconnect despite her lost memories. Driven by guilt for not protecting her before, Jeffery worked to improve her life, but rebuilding their bond proved challenging. As they grew closer, Jeffery discovered they weren't biologically related. Embracing his feelings, he confessed his love. Together, they overcame adversaries, media scrutiny, and personal struggles, ultimately forming a strong and loving family.
The Hidden Billionaire in First ClassA storm leaves a flight dependent on the passenger everyone tried to expel. Jett Hawkings has been dismissed as a baggage handler, but the concealed billionaire is the person able to save them as the aircraft heads toward disaster.
The Queen Bee Strikes BackWestern High is a school where a family name can lift a student to the top of the social scene. Bella is the heir to the Walton family fortune, and she is tired of the rich kids around her, all of them calculating. She hides who she is when she starts seeing Marc, a plus-size boy who seems to love her for herself, and she helps him get recruited to the Harvard football team. Marc has been cheating on her with Jessie, a classmate who bullies Bella and makes fun of her body. He has also been telling people that he is the Walton heir, and on that claim he has risen to the top of the school. Bella finds out, leaves him, changes her look, and makes peace with her curves. Later Marc and Jessie make fun of her plans for college.
Clinging to My Alpha MomWendy, heir to a martial arts clan, is betrayed by her own family, left with amnesia, and written off as a fool. However, everything changes after a daring rescue. Posing as a mother to her rescuer, Minny, she teams up with Theo, a "cripple" hiding a deadly agenda. Together, they take down their enemies, reclaim the martial arts studio, and shatter every lie until the final truth reunites them as a real family.
Lee Chang Ho's Dreams Come TrueLee Changho, a normal comedian, rushes himself to the audition stage for a blockbuster movie in excitement, which was wrongly offered by the youngest staff member's mistake. Mockery and ridicule from other actors and staff severely tear his pride apart, but changing this ordeal into an opportunity, he challenges himself in acting for various genres, making everyone fall for his amazing acting.
The Go-Between GirlAnna came down the mountain on her own and turned up at the Nova Go Club, which Parker Jordan ran. Her teacher Glenn had run out of money and could not keep her, so he sent her to Parker.
The club had a Go problem on the board called the Sovereign Gambit that had gone twenty years without a solution. Anna solved it in a night. Parker took her into the club.
Owl arrived not long after. He was called the Go King and he wanted a match. Anna took his attacks apart a move at a time, and when it was over he went down on his knees and asked her to take him as a student.
Once things had settled Parker told her what he had been working toward. He wanted a place in the Zenith Go Championship. His wife was dead and he had never found out how it happened, and there was a daughter he had lost as well.
Baby’s Sweet Revenge: Mommy, I found My Dream Daddy！Tammy Walton lives with her mother, Cheryl Davis, and the two of them get by on their own. Cheryl has a mark on her face, and her husband Dennis Walton treats her as worthless for it. He keeps a second household with his sister-in-law Theresa and her daughter Angela, and that is where the money goes.
Cheryl dies. Tammy walks into Dennis and Theresa's wedding in mourning clothes, and in the scuffle that follows she takes a blow to the head and does not survive it. She opens her eyes a year earlier, with Cheryl alive and the wedding still ahead. This time she uses what she knows to get her mother out of the way of it, treats the mark on her face, and works on her until Cheryl sees what Dennis has been doing and files for divorce.
The Tutor TrapBrady is the star of the hockey team at his high school, and he needs a chemistry tutor. The student he asks is Harper, who does well in class and keeps to herself. He offers her a trade. She tutors him in chemistry, and in return he acts as her boyfriend, teaches her how to flirt, and helps her win over the boy she likes. They treat the deal as a contract, written to get her someone else. The attraction between the two of them stops being an act, and the contract starts working against them from there.
The Tyrant Emperor's Lucky PrincessThe Emperor yearns for a daughter after 28 royal sons in a row. He vows to cease his ruthless ways. In response to his prayers, Lady Quinn gives birth to Nora, a girl blessed with luck and foresight. Cherished from a young age, Nora uses her abilities to prevent the Emperor's violent impulses, saving lives along the way. Among those she rescues is Simon, a wolfish boy of unmatched strength, who becomes her loyal guardian and protector.
Join Nora and Simon as they outsmart spies from enemy nations and safeguard their empire's future.
Hidden CompanionshipMemi has her newborn son in the car with her when the crash happens. She comes out of it in a coma, and while she is under, a nurse at the hospital takes her baby and leaves another one in his place. Memi sees it happen. She cannot move or speak or make anyone hear her, and that does not change for seven years.
She stays near the boy through all of it. Nick is raised by the family that took him and is abused there. Tommy, the child left in his place, grows up as the Franklin son with everything that comes with it.
At the end of the seven years the nurse arranges to take Nick's corneas so that nothing can be traced back to her. Memi comes out of the coma and goes for her son.
When Wife Won't ForgiveOn their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Anne finds out that Jonathan has been seeing someone else. She has forgiven him in the past, and this time she wants a divorce. Jonathan is a bestselling author and expects to be made CEO of the publishing company, so he puts her out on the street straight away.
Anne takes up her old position as chairwoman of the publishing company. From there she removes Jonathan from his post. He learns then that the woman who kept house for him for twenty-five years is an heiress with money of her own.
You Divorced a Genius HeiressElle Vanderbilt's husband divorces her and leaves her for a woman who is going around as Dr. Nova. Elle is Dr. Nova. She did the work herself and never put her name to it in public.
She marries a stranger, Roy Grant, on the spot, and then learns that Roy is her ex-husband's biggest rival. The ex-husband and the woman using her name are after the same thing Roy is, the largest technology contract in the world, and Elle and Roy go after it together.
The Divorced Wife is a Genius Surgeon8 months pregnant, Alyssa is abandoned by her husband for his mistress and their lovechild Lilly. Little do they know, Alyssa is actually Jane Davenport M.D.--heiress to the Davenport fortune, and the only heart surgeon in the world that can save Lilly.
The Genius and the Bad BoyIn The Genius and the Bad Boy movie, when two hot brothers go after plus size Sophie, will she pick the true-hearted bad boy or the lying quarterback?
Yellowstone: King of MontanaHenry Conrad founded Yellowstone Ranch and people called him the King of Montana. He put that name away and spent ten years working as a janitor at a school so he could raise his son, and he swore off violence to do it.
He is on his way back to the position he left. Before he can say who he is, his son is bullied, beaten and humiliated. Henry breaks the oath. He goes after the boys who did it and starts settling the other things wrong in the valley, the way the King of Montana would.
Mancini’s Forbidden BrideAlice has made a name for herself as a divorce investigator. The client who comes to her is Max, home again and running M Group, and the divorce he wants handled is his own. The wife on paper is Alice. Their families arranged the wedding four years earlier, Max did not turn up to it, and Alice, whose own family had come down in the world, has carried the name Mrs. M since. Neither of them recognizes the other.
A colleague with an interest of her own keeps feeding the confusion. One of Max's cousins is working an angle inside the family. The misunderstandings pile up from there.
Kingdom of Judas [Original]After her sister’s suicide, Anna targets her sister’s artist circle, sending them to a celebrity rehab to uncover the truth. As secrets unravel, she faces shocking revelations that test her resolve in this journey of deepest fears and shocking secrets.
The Lie Between UsJiang Yuancheng has a twin, Jiang Kaiming, and one of them can pass for the other. Su Wanqing is married to Yuancheng and believes he is dead.
She is dying herself when she learns otherwise. Her husband is alive, has been living as Kaiming, and is living with Kaiming's wife, her own sister-in-law, as if he were Kaiming. She comes back to an earlier point in her life knowing all of this, and begins working toward her revenge.
Ivy & Thorn: Ivy Never FadesIvy and Daisy grew up in the same orphanage and were put up for adoption on the same day. Two households came to choose. Daisy went with the Vance family, who were rich, and Ivy was taken in by a couple who worked as cleaners.
The Vances did not accept Daisy. Patrick Vance, the son and heir, kept away from her and took up instead with Ivy, who by then was supporting herself. Daisy received no share of the Vance estate. On the day of Ivy and Patrick's wedding, Daisy drove a car into Ivy, killing her, and then killed herself.
Both women woke in the orphanage on the morning of the original selection. This time Daisy went to the cleaners and Ivy was taken by the Vances. Daisy copied the way Ivy had lived the first time, and Patrick fell for her. The cleaners' household turned out to be nothing like what Daisy had expected. The Vances treated Ivy with the same contempt they had once shown Daisy. Ivy befriended a girl who was good with programming, and the two of them set up a company. Daisy and Patrick worked against Ivy while she was doing it.
Mom, I'm Here for YouThe female CEO Eleanor has tried to find her birth mother for 20 years and finally got some news. Unexpectedly, a human trafficker Victor wanted to scam Eleanor for her money. So they let Janet replace her real mother who was imprisoned and abused. Because of birthmark inconsistency and memory deviation, Eleanor started doubting the fake mother. She found out about their trap and finally saved her real mom. And those bad people also got punished...
You Fired a Fashion IconDani, a mousy, plain-looking designer, saves her company's Paris Fashion Week show only to have her success stolen by lazy but stylish intern Brynn, who gets Dani FIRED by her boss's power-hungry daughter. But when a rival fashion house recruits Dani, she gets the glow-up of the century and becomes determined to show off her design skills and reclaim her title as the true couture QUEEN.
Bitcoin Baby [Original]Desperate to be financially stable enough to get their daughter back from foster care, two grifters try to con a lonely entrepreneur out of his Bitcoin fortune but get in deep trouble when they find he is not who he claims to be.
The Long Way [Original]An idealistic writer tries to rationalize his decision to move to Los Angeles on a cross-country road trip that weaves between the dual realities of the trip with his overcautious girlfriend and his impulsive friend.
The Man Who Went to Heaven [Original]After being fatally shot by a robber, David Burrows returns from the dead with a story about his afterlife experience.Falling Sons [Original]After their dad passes away from a long bout of cancer, two brothers will have to deal with the one thing they hate most... each other...
The Stars and the Storms [Original]A small-town actress and a rising movie star meet on a New York film set and fall in love. As their relationship grows, fame and ambition threaten their bond. A raw, emotional journey set in the high-stakes world of the film industry.
Beauty in the Broken [Original]The worlds of a depressed psychologist and an emotionally disturbed unhoused woman collide. As he tries to rescue her they fall in love, and each gets a second chance at a new life.Get Over Yourself [Original]On the eve of selling his start-up company for millions, a young tech entrepreneur returns to his childhood home to care for his ailing mother. At home, he finds himself confronted with the same, unresolved issues that sent him fleeing to the West Coast.
Unconformity [Original]A rock-climbing geologist finds an unexpected friendship in the high desert.Her Scent [Original]Jen moved on to the next part four years after writing her first story. But she wasn’t aware that her dream was Athan’s nightmare since he had moved into a property where an unknown entity already existed and had taken over his dreams.
Reception [Original]Six friends reunite to attend the wedding of a high school sweetheart couple they knew.
The Ones Who Didn't Fly Away [Original]A crossover narrative exploring themes of immigration and romance unfolds as Glaucus and Era's paths intersect unexpectedly through a fortuitous traffic collision.