Pierre-Paul Daoust, 36, an intellectual with a PhD in philosophy, is forced to work as a deliveryman to afford a decent living. One day while delivering a parcel he gets caught in a hold-up gone terribly wrong: two dead men and millions in moneybags are lying on the ground. Pierre-Paul is confronted with a dilemma: leave empty-handed or take the money and run? The Fall of the American Empire is a 2018 Québec crime-thriller written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Alexandre Landry, Maxim Roy, Yan England and Rémy Girard. Based on a 2010 Old Montreal shooting, it is thematically related, but not a direct sequel, to Arcand′s 1986 The Decline of the American Empire and 2003 The Barbarian Invasions. This new film takes a witty yet touching look, as only Arcand knows how, at the predominance of money in a society where all other values seem to have crumbled.