Doc Allman lives his life with precision, practicing medicine in the Deep South. He goes about his business, although he is both lonely and painfully inept with women. Tara Doyle limps into his exam room with a broken nose, delivered to her courtesy of her abusive husband. She presents herself to Doc as a sexual opportunity. Doc dives into the affair with no long-term expectations, wary of a scandal, but he soon begins to urge Tara to exit her marriage, which brings on unexpected complications. "Violent Delights" challenges the notions of love, marriage, and the crimes that both imprison and exonerate us all.