The movie takes place in Harlem, New York back in 1987, were 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives together with her social loser of a mother, Mary, that for serval years have physicly and mentaly abused her and blames Precious for her shitty life without any meaning or future.
In the begining of the movie, Precious is has been impregnated by he dad, Carl and is now expecting her second child. Her first born Mongo has the Down Syndrome and is being taken care of by her grandmother.
The mother is only intrested in Precious to skip out of school, so she can get some more money by showing up at the welfare office to collect the same welfare check as her, now that she don't have a future anyway, so why try to get smarter and get a education. Like mother, like daughter!
Due to her pregnasy she is suspended from school, but her principal is trying to help her to an alternativ school were they can help her find a way to changes the direction of her life.
This alternativ school is not like any other, but a school with only one class of 6 - 8 studens. In the begining Precious is being very quried, but as she can see that the rest of the groupe is in the same boat as her, things start to move in the right direction. She is going from not being able to read to begin reading and at the same time her new teacher, Miss Blu Rain is also trying to help her metaly become a stronger person with her own personalty and appinions.
Precious gives birth to her second child and names him, Abdul. After she is coming home from the hospital, Mary delibretly drops the only 3-days-old Abdul and at the same time hits Precious. She fights back and once and for all flees her mothers appartment and is now all alone in the world. To find schelture for the night, she breaks in to the class room, were she spend the night and the next day Miss Blu Rain finds her. Miss Blu Rain takes good care of her and findes her a "in between house" while she is continues at school, so she don't have to go back to her mother.
In the process of all this Presious is introduced to the social worker, Miss Weiss who founds out about the incest and abuce she have been going through most of her life. By having good and long talks with Precious she is letting her come out with all the bad things that she have experinced and get a lot of serious and heart breaking things of her chest.
In the end of the movie Precious have one last meeting with her mother at Miss Weiss office were she is told that her dad have died of AIDS. Mary is trying to tell her life story and ask Precious to move back home with her, but that is way to late after all that she have done to her ... for Precious her mother is dead.
Precious is a strong, but a very young woman. Eventhough she is leave everything what is bad behind her and starts over by her self and with her children that she loves so much while she still attents school.
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