After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Keywords: alcoholism , anger , angry , arson , billboard , biting , cancer , dark-comedy , guilty-conscience , missouri , molotov-cocktail , murder , police-brutality , police-corruption , pool-hall , racism , rape , small-town , suicide , teenage-girl , tragic , serious , grieving-mother , oscar-winner