The narrative begins with Mildred Hayes taking a drastic measure to draw attention to the lack of progress in the investigation of her daughter Angela's brutal murder. She rents three dilapidated billboards on a rural road leading into the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri. The billboards read: "And Still No Arrests?" "How Come, Chief Willoughby?" Mildred Hayes
The film begins with a striking image: three weathered, abandoned billboards on a forgotten road outside Ebbing, Missouri. Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), ravaged by the unsolved murder and rape of her daughter Angela, decides to rent these billboards to take aim at the local chief of police, William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). threebillboardsoutsideebbingmissouri2017u
