'' Timely like the spring rain , so has he come back into my life ... . '' Dong-ha is a thirty-something Korean architect on a business trip to Chengdu , China where his company is carrying out construction projects to rebuild the city after the earthquake of 2008 . By chance , he meets May , an old friend from his school days in the U.S. May is originally from Chengdu , where she had returned to after graduation ; she works as a tour guide . Dong-ha and May had feelings for each other then , but they parted before they had a chance to define or declare them . Now that they are thrown together again , they find that these old feelings reignite and new ones form
earthquake of 2008
2008 Sichuan earthquake
A Season of Good Rain