Resume af filmen 'Precious'

The movie Precious is about an illiterate, young black woman who suffers from severe obesity. Her mother, Mary, is a physically and mentally abusing parent. Mary’s also an uncooperative crack addict. Her father rapes Precious. She is pregnant with his second child.

Precious handles school very bad. The headmaster decides to send her to an alternative school.When Precious gathers the courage to go to Each One Teach One, the alternative school, she’s greeted by other illiterate students, some from the States, some from outside the States. Precious finds that she has an aptitude for cooking and that she really can learn to read and spell.The people that surround her at Each One Teach One are helping her develop and go through the obstacles and struggles of being an abused teenager and a teen mother.

Precious gives birth to her second child fathered by her father, Carl, at the hospital. She gets help from her supportive friends at Each One Teach One. When she gets home she gets in an argument with her antagonistic mother. Mary resorts to violence because she believes that Precious has stolen her husband from her. She decides to hit her daughter with a cast-iron skillet. Mary drops Abdul, Precious’ child on the floor on purpose. Precious runs out of the living room, unfortunately she falls down the stairs and hits her forehead. As a viewer you’re scared that something has happened to the baby but he’s alright. Precious doesn’t hesitate to flee to Each One Teach One and breaks into one of the classrooms to get some warmth and to get away from the unrelenting battering, poverty and deprivation at home.