I’ll pay a fine in a No Parking zone to see this movie.

Rose Byrne won the Golden Globe for her performance in “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You,” where she played a hurried mother dealing with a lot of problems in her life. I thought her acting was profound, but I still thought the film was too stressful for my mind. In “Tow,” she plays another mother dealing with some problems, but they’re less stressful and more strong-willed.

Based on a true story, Byrne plays an alcoholic homeless woman named Amanda Ogle, who drives her car around and struggling to find a job as a veterinarian in Seattle. She has the license, but no college degree. Now, there is some good news and bad news for her. The good news is she lands a pick up duty job at the local vet, but the bad news is that her car has been towed and the charge is $273, which she can’t afford.

She knows her car was taken for a joy ride and illegally parked somewhere, so she tries to sue the towing company (which also features Simon Rex as a consistent, but nicer employee). But when her car gets sold at auction, she turns to a young lawyer named Kevin (Dominic Sessa) for help. He’s the kind to help people take on more powerful figures who care less about their status and put them down. And it’s not going to be easy, especially when the opposing lawyer (Corbin Bernsen) calls their bluff and hangs up the phone calls.

There’s a scene later in the film, when Amanda is mad that she had to miss her daughter at Christmas to get her car back. Days become weeks and weeks become months. Why should she pay for something that wasn’t her fault? That’s what she’s trying to wake people up about. And you know there’s going to some tensity within Byrne’s performance.

Despite her atheism, she stays at a homeless shelter at a local church with the strict host Barb (Octavia Spencer) having some rules: they have a curfew, no drugs or alcohol, and “No Porn. We’re on the Lord’s WiFi down here.” Demi Lovato (as a pregnant singer), Ariana DeBose (a recovering junkie and mother), and Bree Elrod (a crazy woman with a supposedly lost cat) play some of the residents. We should get to know more of these women, but they do have their moments of sincerity.

And throughout this movie, Amanda calls her estranged costume designer teenage daughter Avery (Elsie Fisher), who lives in Utah. She promises her she’ll see her at Christmas, but given the circumstances, it becomes complicated. Especially when she doesn’t tell her about her car trouble.

Watching “Tow,” I was able to acknowledge the struggles of Amanda-how she struggles with her drinking, her car case, and her connection with her daughter. And Byrne, who also produced it, displays her reactions to them with the same kind of emotion and stress as in “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You.” And I’m sorry if I think this film is better than that film, but I have to be honest. I think it is.

We also have to give credit Sessa, who has proven himself to be natural young actor following his breakout role in “The Holdovers,” Lovato, who doesn’t overly promote herself for this movie, DeBose, who breaks free from her bad streak (“Argylle,” “Kraven the Hunter,” and “Love Hurts”), and Fisher, who displays her estranged daughter role with more development than anger. As I’ve mentioned, we should have more scenes with them, but they still hold us over.

Writing this review, I just realized that two weeks in a row, I’ve appreciated a drama for not overexposing the anger and stress. And if you recall last week’s “Regretting You,” a young ex-convict wants to see her little girl, but is given a restraining order from her dead boyfriend’s parents. And yet, her romance with his bed friend lowers hers and the audience’s stress levels.

If my car was towed, I’d be stressed, too. So this movie speaks our minds.