In the brilliant filmic trajectory of Lee Chang-dong –which began in 1997 with Green fish, when the South Korean was 40 years old and an established novelist–, existential drama has always coexisted with an incisive study of contemporary social reality. This combination reappears in A Possible Love, a Netflix production in which the director of Oasis and Burning approaches the idea of class struggle, or what remains of it. Inspired by a real case of mass layoffs that took place in a large South Korean industry more than ten years ago, Lee composes a striking emotional X-ray of life within global capitalism.