While Mia tries to shield seven-year-old Dylan from the trauma of repeated questioning, Allen's legal and PR teams drive a narrative that Mia is a scorned woman and unfit mother who brainwashed her children. Two separate 1992 investigations in New York and Connecticut are reexamined in light of never-before-made-public court documents, police evidence, and revelatory videotape.

Dylan and the family attempt to heal after a bitter 1993 custody battle. Decades later, while Woody continues to receive accolades in Hollywood, the momentum of the MeToo movement coupled with Ronan Farrow's public support emboldens Dylan to go public with her story for the first time.