Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

For precious girls everywhere.

A harrowing, unflinching portrait of a traumatized teenager trapped in cycles of abuse, illiteracy, and poverty, anchored by intimate character study and the fragile possibility of escape.

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.