 Taste of Cherry explores the fragility of life and rhetorically focuses on the preciousness of life . Badii , a middle aged apparently healthy and well off <unk> ( played by <unk> <unk> ) , cruises the city ’ s outskirts in his Range Rover trying to find a stranger who will help him commit suicide . Conversations with people on the way gradually convince him of the positivity and preciousness of life . From the young Kurdish soldier who is spooked by the shuddering request to a middle @-@ aged Afghani seminarian who is unable to dissuade Badii with religious sympathy to a Turkish taxidermist at a natural history museum who urges the glories of nature — the taste of cherries — as the prime reason not to kill oneself , Kiarostami evokes a high degree of emphasis on the different elements of life . 
