In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones lives in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood with her unemployed mother, Mary, who has long subjected her to physical and verbal abuse. Precious has also been raped by her now-absent father, Carl, resulting in two pregnancies. The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and survives on welfare. Precious’s first child, a daughter named “Mongo” (short for Mongoloid), has Down syndrome and is being cared for by Precious’s grandmother. However, Mary forces the family to pretend that Mongo lives with her and Precious so she can receive extra money from the government. When Precious’s second pregnancy is discovered, her junior high principal arranges for her to attend an alternative school, where she hopes Precious can change her life’s direction. Precious finds a way out of her traumatic daily life by escaping into daydreams in which she is loved and appreciated.Precious 2009 Movie Download.
Inspired by her new teacher, Blu Rain, Precious learns to read and write. She meets sporadically with social worker Ms. Weiss, who learns about the sexual assault in the household when Precious reveals who fathered her children. While Precious is in the hospital giving birth to her second child, Abdul, she meets and develops a crush on John McFadden, a nursing assistant who shows her kindness. When Precious returns home, Mary asks to hold Abdul; however, when Precious’s back is turned, Mary purposely drops Abdul, who cries upon impact.
When Ms. Rain discovers them the next morning, she frantically calls local shelters looking for a safe place for Precious and Abdul to live, but they end up staying with Ms. Rain and her live-in girlfriend. The next morning, Ms. Rain takes Precious and Abdul to find assistance. Precious is able to continue her schooling while raising Abdul in a halfway house.Mary soon returns to inform Precious of her father’s death from AIDS. Precious later learns that she is HIV-positive, though Abdul is not.