''Taxi'' portrays director Jafar Panahi as he courses through the streets of Tehran while pretending to be a Share taxi#Ajans/اژانس driver. He wants to hear a piece of his passengers' life and declines any payment for the services. His earliest passengers include a conservative-minded man who supports capital punishment and a woman supporting its abolition, a Copyright infringement vendor named Omid who once lent foreign films not available in the country to Panahi, an injured man and his wife who both insist on recording a Will and testament due to their panic, and a pair of superstitious old women wanting to release their goldfishes to a holy spring.