Thursday is a stop-motion animation about the overwhelming sensory experiences that occur in people’s day-to-day lives, some of which they may be unaware of, but are still subconsciously exhausting. It is meant to inform people of how seemingly small design flaws such as buzzing lights or seemingly harmless actions such as moving closer to someone on the train can still cause others stress and panic.

The film depicts a generic “guy” going through an average day, but every sensory input is amplified and dramatized to show their increasing level of stress. They start their day by deciding they don’t like the breakfast in front of them and getting on the train where lights flicker and people slowly appear to warp. They go to work where they have trouble focusing due to the sound of their own hands on their keyboard. For lunch, they stress-eat from the vending machine which makes an electronic buzzing noise. They go back to work where a person tries talking to them, not realizing how much pressure they’re under. They get back on the train, where the flickering and warping of scenery has become even worse, and finally they get back home and eat the breakfast they rejected earlier. There is a static noise in the background of the film all the way through, which increases in volume gradually until the very end.