A Most Beautiful Thing

synopsis

A Most Beautiful Thing chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country. The film explores not only the safety these young men found on the water but the trauma of violence and cyclical poverty, examining how these young men were able to support each other in reimagining a different future for themselves, and how rowing and the water provided the backdrop for that opportunity. These young men came together, after 20 years out of the boat, to race this past summer, not only to celebrate the team's founding, but the fact that they are still alive. This is their story.