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  The Barbarian Invasions Production NotesRemy, divorced and in his early fifties, is hospitalized. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their son Sebastien to come home from London where he now lives. Sebastien 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, Sibastien moves heaven and earth, brings his contacts into play and disrupts the system in every way possible to ease the ordeal that awaits Rimy. He also reunites the merry band that marked Rimy's past around his father's bedside: relatives, friends and former mistresses.
What have they become in this age of "barbarian invasions"? Are the old irreverence, friendship and truculence still there? Do humor, hedonism and desire still inhabit their dreams? In the age of the barbarian invasions, the decline of the American empire continues.
Continuing seventeen years after Arcand's 1986 film The Decline of the American Empire, the movie centres on an exploration of the characters first met in the original film and their children, newly introduced. The older generation are still largely socialist and proponents of Québécois nationalism, but both political and economic developments since the 1970s, as well as their own aging, make this stance seem somewhat anachronistic.
The plot revolves around the character Rémy's battle with terminal cancer, and the efforts of Sébastien, his estranged son to make his dying father more comfortable in his last days. Finally the father and son travel to Vermont in the United States to receive medical care.
Sébastien has reluctantly returned from London at the request of Rémy's ex-wife Louise, where he has a successful career in quantitative finance - anathema to his father's socialist tendencies. However, this background helps Sébastien to navigate and manipulate Quebec's failing healthcare system on his father's behalf. In the process, he also gathers the various other friends and family members from Rémy's past who come to visit and comfort him. During Rémy's last days, he and his friends travel to the cottage of the first film, and discuss philosophy, politics, and past sexual and intellectual exploits.
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