
Such is the chaos that permeates Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, that when Hayes (Frances McDormand), the film’s stone-cold protagonist, puts up three billboards humiliating the Ebbing police department seven months after her daughter’s death, it unleashes a fury.

The local police station is torched, and so was the daughter of Mildred Hayes. A troubled parent commits suicide, a dentist is bored with his own tools, and a bar fight breaks out between a discharged cop and a rapist. The police torture people of colour and throw white men out of windows. An infernal rage seeps through the town of Ebbing, Missouri.
