Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

After 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 William Willoughby the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer 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.