Rémy, divorced and in his early fifties, becomes urgently hospitalized. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their son Sébastien to come home from London where he now lives. Sébastien hesitates; he and his father haven′t had much to say to one another for years now. He relents, however, and flies to Montreal to help his mother and support his father. As soon as he arrives, Sébastien moves heaven and earth - disrupts the social system in every way possible - to ease the fatal ordeal that awaits Rémy. Around the dying man′s bedside, the son assembles the witty and erudite band of relatives, friends and former mistresses with whom Rémy once contemplated the decline of American civilization. But in this age of "barbarian invasions" are the old irreverence, friendship and truculence still there? Do humor, hedonism and desire still inhabit their dreams? Not really a sequel to The Decline of The American Empire, Denys Arcand′s Canadian classic of 1986, The Barbarian Invasions more like an eloquent cinematic reunion.