Richard "Dick" Dean, a forty year old tremendously plain librarian, who finds himself, after 18 years of marriage, in an extremely abusive relationship. He has to figure out how to save his life and his children before Jane breaks him down. For years Richard's close friends have tried to show him the cycle of abuse his wife Jane has subjected him to. Too ignorant, or too unobservant, Richard blissfully went about his life while Jane tortured him...