Proceed With Caution is the story of Richard "Dick" Dean, a forty-year-old tremendously plain librarian, finally sees his wife Jane as a serial abuser. 18 years of marriage and 18 years of psychological and psychical torture by the hands of the woman he loves bring him to the harsh realization that he now has to figure out how to remove her from his life. For years Richard's close friends, Sam a Master Chief and Navy SEAL, and Bob a local hardware store owner and former Mafia associate, have tried to show him the cycle of abuse his wife Jane has subjected him to.