Precious lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. ![]() Her infant daughter, Mongo - such named since she has Down Syndrome - lives with Precious' grandmother. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise. ![]() Sixteen year old Claireece Jones - who goes by her middle name Precious - is illiterate and overweight. In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
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