Six men agree to stop shaving for six months and record the results, turning in video diaries and sitting for weekly interviews as their beards grow out. The camera stays close on the ordinary lives running underneath the experiment: one man is caring for a parent with Alzheimer's, another is navigating money trouble and strain in his marriage, another is about to become a father. The beard itself barely matters after the first few weeks; what the film tracks is how each man talks about himself once the interviews become a habit, and how the people around him react to a face that keeps changing. Interviews are cut together across the six months rather than kept separate, so one man's setback lands next to another's small win. There is no narrator steering the interpretation, just the men describing where they are that week and the footage of them getting there. It ends where it started, with six faces and six unfinished lives, the facial hair mostly beside the point by then.