An impressionistic documentary, depicting moments moments from a work day at a salt mining site during 1960s Bulgaria. The final cut. aptly titled "Salt" of the film consists of two versions of itself. The first is the original cut of the documentary, as the author imagined it, known as "Salt I". The second half is a heavily edited version, produced in accordance to terms, put forward by the Socialist Cultural Commitee at the time, called "Salt II".