The protagonist, Nasser Ali, is a well-known musician who is also an incompetent father and a terrible husband. He was famous but lost his job at the Conservatory of Music. He lived on his wife's income but never shared the housework and took care of the children. He was selfish, cold-blooded and paranoid. In a fierce quarrel with his wife again, his wife smashed his beloved violin, so he began to look for a new violin, and in the process, he met his former love Yilan......
Nasser studied at Shiraz when he was 20 years old and joined the famous violinist Agamosafa. Agamosafa pointed out that Nasser's musical skills were rich but emotionless. His music lacked the "sigh", Sitting on the street, Nasser was bored thinking about the "sigh" the teacher said, and accidentally met the love of this life, Yilan. He used a clumsy method to create a chance to meet Yilan, and finally held the beautiful woman, but the girl's father did not allow the two of them to marry, and this relationship ended in a kiss in the rainy night.
The grief of love made Nasser seize the "sigh", and he took the violin given to him by Agamosafa to the concert halls of various countries. After more than 20 years of wandering, Nasser returned to his hometown and was forced by his mother to marry Frankie, a math teacher. He did not love Frankie. Their marriage was full of quarrels. For Frankie, the only thing he could get The way her husband appreciates is to make his favorite plum chicken. She naively thinks that grabbing a man's stomach will grab a man's heart, but after Frankie smashes her husband's violin, her only hope is dashed.
Nasser, who lost his violin, wanted to die. After some ideological struggle, he chose the most decent way to commit suicide—waiting to die. On the sixth day he was lying in bed waiting to die, he waited for Azrael, the god of death, Azrael is the narrator of this story. At the end of the story, Nasser died on the eighth day of suicide, ending his life.
When I first watched the film, I didn't understand Nasser. His paranoia and strange way of committing suicide made me feel absurd and ridiculous. Even in a fairy tale movie, I couldn't accept Nasser's irresponsibility and childishness. When Yilan appeared, I realized that what my wife smashed was not just the violin, but Nasser's all sustenance and the only fetter for Nasser to survive.
After many years, I met Yilan again, but Nasser got the news that had long been forgotten. This became the last straw that broke the camel's back, so everything in life is no longer worth nostalgic.
You are the taste of plum and chicken in my numb life, and the only solace in the turbid world of bitterness.
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