Adapted from a short story by haruki murakami, lee chang dong's burning follows the story of deliveryman jongsu ah in yoo, who is out on a job when he runs into haemi jong seo jun, a girl who once lived in his neighbourhood'. '.strtoupper('f')riendly and flirtatious, she asks if he can look after her cat while she's away on a trip to africa, and he happily obliges'. '.strtoupper('o')n her return, she asks jongsu to meet her at the airport and promptly introduces him to ben steven yeun an enigmatic young man she met during her trip'. '.strtoupper('a')s the group spend more time together, jongsu slowly gets to know the inscrutable visitor – until one day, ben tells him about his most unusual hobby...