 Themes of life and death and the concepts of change and continuity play a major role in Kiarostami 's works . In the Koker trilogy , for example , we see an ongoing life force in the face of death and destruction , and the power of human resilience to overcome and defy death . The film is set in the aftermath of the 1990 Tehran earthquake . Kiarostami expressed how important these themes are in his films , particularly in the film Life , and Nothing More ... , directed soon after the disaster : 
