In an alternate universe history determine by superheroes, once-celebrated ‘costume adventurer’ have got be ban by a society disenchant with vigilantism. Now, in 1985, the slaying of The comic, a hero-turned-government secret agent, pull the attending of Rorschach test, the last of the outlaw vigilante. Rorschach’s probe embroil his retired colleague, Nite Owl, Silk apparition, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias, in struggle with their past, with each other and in a enigma that endanger their life and a universe on the threshold of war.