What is the denouement in the plot of a fictional work?
the incident that starts the story
the peak of all the action in the story
the conclusion of the story
the point where the events of the story wrap up
The answer is: the point where the events of the story wrap up
Since the denoument in the plot is where all the problematics start to get solved and the matters are being explained, it´s not the end, but the begginig of the end.