A talented musician , nasser-Ali, loses the will to live after his wife violates his violin . He hunts for an alternative, and finding not one that sounds the same, he also promises to perish. He can. This may be the narrative of his final week of life, where we view flashbacks and flash forwards of his previous life along with his sons'and daughters' futures. We also see appearances of a nude Sophia Loren in addition to the angel of death. We realize exactly why he decided to finish it along with also the profundity of this selection , as we view his own life.