In a dystopian London of the 1990s, where authoritarianism has crushed every form of freedom and personal expression, a mysterious terrorist known as "V" emerges. His subversive actions and symbolic terrorist acts aim to awaken the oppressed citizens of a country where hope and happiness have given way to despair and destitution...

This is the setting of the monumental graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, a work that stands as a milestone of contemporary comic art and was successfully adapted into a film by the Wachowski siblings, creators of The Matrix.