It tells the story of Dworkin's life through a hybrid mix of archival footage and dramatic performances by five different actresses: Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, Ashley Judd, and Christine Lahti.

My Name is Andrea tells the story of Andrea Dworkin's life through a mixture of archive footage and dramatic performances by five different actresses, representing her at different ages: Amandla Stenberg and Soko play a young Dworkin, interested in poetry and politics; Andrea Riseborough is the wife in Amsterdam; Ashley Judd and Christine Lahti play the older Dworkin as she became a public figure.

Events in Dworkin's life are depicted such as her sexual assault by two male doctors at the New York Women's House of Detention, her friendship with Allen Ginsberg, her marriage and abusive relationship in Amsterdam, her focus on writing, her many public appearances including one at the Cambridge Union, her collaboration with Catharine A. MacKinnon, her 1999 rape in Paris and her long loving relationship with John Stoltenberg.

The archive footage includes home video of Dworkin with her family as a child and appearances on The Phil Donahue Show and After Dark.

[3][4] The IndieWire review also praised aspects of the films, whilst criticizing its "dogged insistence on sugarcoating Dworkin’s legacy".