A beautiful meditation on life and existence, TASTE OF CHERRY follows a day in the life of Badii, an affluent middle-aged Tehrani who has lost his instinct for living. Surrounded by the bustling vitality of Iranian working life, Badii approaches several people with a request to help him end his life, until meeting an aged Turkish taxidermist whose simple yet eloquent words awaken Badii to the simple pleasures of life.