The Burning Season is a 2023 Canadian romantic drama directed by Sean Garrity and told in reverse chronological order, in which JB — the owner of Luna Lake Resort — is on his wedding day to Poppy when he breaks down and confesses to a seven-year secret affair with Alena, a married woman who vacationed at his resort every summer with her unsuspecting husband Tom. As the film rewinds through each summer, peeling back layer after layer, it reveals how their bond — rooted in shared teenage trauma from the very same resort — slowly crossed from friendship into a consuming forbidden love, with both cheating on their respective partners under a self-imposed rule of "summers only" until they shattered even that, setting off a chain of devastating consequences for everyone involved.