To escape the complicated grief of her mother’s death, 17-year-old Renella Mendoza takes a job recruiting slum teenagers for a research study, then risks their fragile trust by sabotaging the study to prevent her boss, a millionaire financier, from trafficking the teens for sex. DEMO DAY is Part 1 of sci-fi arthouse animation series "The Great Tit is a Bird," which follows Black and Brown feminine and trans-feminine people around the world, the losses they survive, and the ways they shape our high-tech era even as they are pushed to the margins.