Eliot Seo is no stranger to pressure. At the top of his class, the 18-year-old student body president is the ideal student and role model for his peers. He is surrounded by perfection. But perfection comes at a cost- A heavy but quiet seething like simmering water. In his perfect life, perfect home, and perfect family, he doesn't know who he is. Only who everyone else wants him to be. In his confusion, there is only one hobby that is able to give the building tension a release;

Cars. The loud, noisy machines that could break him from his cage and carry him far, far away. Along with the crew of street racers and their venerated leader he finds himself falling into, Eliot becomes torn between two worlds as the perfect student, and the denounced "criminal".

Heartwarming but bittersweet, Burnout tells the story of emotional repression and mental collapse, all the while maintaining strong themes of self-worth, friendship, and the importance of people to call family in difficult times.