A complex multi-layered mystery adventure Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society & the Doomsday Clock
- which charts the USAs tension with the Soviet Union
- is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill & discredit all past & present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion
- a ragtag group of retired superheroes only one of whom has true powers
- Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging & disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past & catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the watchmen?