Norrin Radd, the Silver Surfer, is dying. As he attempts to tie up all the loose ends from a long life, he heads to New York for a much-needed consultation with an old friend—Spider-Man...

His time is short and the path to Zenn-La is neither easy nor straight. To reach his destination, the Surfer must travel through a battlefield of unimaginable scale, and cut to the heart of a Sacred War that has raged for untold eons.

As the substance that protects him from the vacuum of space decays and he faces the inevitability of his own imminent demise, the Silver Surfer makes a last tour of the galaxy and the friends he has made throughout his career.