In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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.