Morocco's mining regions carry the leftovers of a colonial economy. French companies ran the mines under the occupation, and when independence arrived in 1956, one condition let France keep most of those companies operating inside the country. The film picks up decades later, in the 1980s, after the easiest ore is gone and the French operators pull out, leaving miners without wages or any other way to earn a living. Many keep working anyway, descending into the same shafts without company backing, without safety oversight, digging illegally for whatever ore remains. The camera follows these men underground, into tunnels lit only by headlamps, tracing the physical toll of work that used to be industrial and is now improvised and unregulated. The title's six days point to how long some of these men stay below at a stretch, resurfacing only when the job or the air forces them to. It is a portrait of a labor market that independence rearranged but never repaired.