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She believes there’s a better chance of finding Angela’s murderer if she keeps the case in the public eye, regardless of the consequences.

When she notices three dilapidated billboards outside of her hometown of Ebbing, MO, she rents them and puts up the following message: “Raped while dying.” “Still no arrests?” “How come, Chief Willoughby?” Needless to say, Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t take too kindly to the billboards neither do many of Ebbing’s citizens, who would prefer that Mildred grieve in private and not remind them of the horrible, unsolved crime. “They’re too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,” she says. Mildred believes the local sheriff and his deputies aren’t doing enough to capture the killer. Seven months ago, her teenage daughter Angela was raped and murdered, but no arrests have been made.