After seven months have passed with out a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold movement, painting three signs leading into her town having a message directed at Bill Willoughby, the revered chief of authorities of town. Ebbing's police force and also the conflict between Mildred is simply exacerbated After an undercover mother's boy with a penchant for violence, his second in command Officer Jason Dixon, becoming involved.