William "Bill" Pitts

After seven 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 Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason 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.

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.

A civil service worker in Georgia places her family at risk when she agrees to help expose high-level corruption.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.