Precious

It all begins in Harlem in the year 1987, where precious sixteen years old, wants to be a famous model, despite its physical, has a daughter who suffers from Down syndrome, alsoexpecting their second child

Precious" Jones is 16, is obese, illiterate and expecting her second child of his own absent father. He lives in Harlem, the kingdom of the invisible, ofthe voiceless, his mother, a cruel prison watching television constantly and subjected to the most humiliating abuse. Forced to leave school because of pregnancy, Precious ends inan institution for hopeless cases. And there, in the last step of those who have already downloaded all the stairs, is Miss Rain, a young teacher, militant and radical through thatPrecious will be able to recover his voice and dignity to discover a new world which can finally be expressed in a way never before imagined.

Precious can be sometimes sad, butnever gives up. Behind his impassive expression is a young and curious observer with an innate and unshakable feeling that the world new opportunities await. Threatened with expulsionfrom high school, Precious offered transfer to an alternative school system following the Each One / Teach One, where in addition to learning, students also participate in teaching.Precious does not know what "alternative", but his instinct tells him that this is the opportunity he was waiting. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient but strict Miss Rain(Paula Patton), Precious undertakes a personal journey that will take the darkness, pain and helplessness in the light, love and self-determination.

It all begins in Harlem in theyear 1987, where precious sixteen years old, wants to be a famous model, despite its physical, has a daughter who suffers from Down syndrome, also expecting their second child