The film investigates the aftermath of a devastating 1990 earthquake which killed some 50,000 people in northern Iran. This region provided the setting for Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's Home. Kiarostami's search for the two young actors who played central roles in that film becomes the dramatic source of Life and Nothing More…as a father and son travel to Quoker, the hometown of the two boys, and along the way meet earthquake survivors who desperately and valiantly work to reconstruct their lives.