The Real Precious Jones / Precious

For Precious, 16, who grew up in the poverty of Harlem, life is hell. Obese, illiterate, mistreated by her mother and the victim of repeated rapes by her father, she also has a little girl with Down syndrome born from this incest. When she finds herself pregnant again, Precious is expelled from her school. However, the principal refuses to abandon her to her fate, and sends her to an institution for teenage girls.

** scratches on the disc