Nine freshmen women have been recruited to a Northeast collegiate rowing team, where every morning at 6am they compete with each other for the best times, lowest body weights, and most influential seats, until race day when they are asked to put it all aside and row together as teammates in one boat. Crew would be chaotic enough on its own, but off the water, their coach shows up at their parties and drinks with them, makes lewd comments about their bodies, and is allegedly sleeping with one of them. So when one rower secretly rats him out and is seemingly rewarded with the best seat in the boat when he’s fired, her motives come into question– as does her position of privilege on the team. Over the course of their freshman year, All Eight examines how the world of collegiate sports drives these young women with varied power to fight to win– races, love, power– at the expense of even each other.