History is at an impasse. No revolutions are taking place. What else can one say? A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles, and about the absence of story. In the form of a cat, we follow the story of a man who completely lights up when his daughter immerses herself in a chest. Perhaps it is fiction. But it might also be a political, even utopian play, because it wagers on the magical possibilities of language and radical imagination. Book Burning is not what it is, but that which it might be: an impetus for the start of a new world. Writer, essayist and performer Pieter De Buysser and visual artist Hans Op de Beeck have created a poetic performance with strong political contents. A cabinet of curiosities in a world overloaded with information. What can WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden do for poetry? You can't know the facts until you see the fiction.