Original sentence: Sarah Morton (Rampling), a middle-aged English mystery writer who has written a successful series of novels featuring a single detective, is having writer's block that is impeding her next book.Sarah has flashbacks of scenes at the villa where it is Julia and not Julie who is sharing the house, a disparity for which no explicit explanation is given.Sarah returns to England and visits her publisher's office with her new novel.Sarah suddenly becomes the young girl's friend and protector, and assists on helping her to bury Franck's body.She eventually recovers, and confesses that Franck is dead.She feels uninspired and jaded.She returns to the villa, where a confused Julie thinks that Sarah is her mother, and has an breakdown.She uses earplugs to allow her to sleep during Julie's noisy nighttime adventures, although she nonetheless has a voyeuristic fascination with them
Edited sentence: In a surprise ending, Sarah returns to England and visits her publisher's office with her new novel.Julie then confesses that Franck is dead.Sarah Morton (Rampling), a middle-aged English mystery writer, is having writer's block that is stopping her from completing her next book.Sarah even has flashbacks of scenes at the villa where it is Julia and not Julie who is sharing the house.Sarah suddenly becomes the young girl's friend and protector, and assists on helping her to hide Francks body.She has written a long, successful and very popular series of novels featuring a single detective, and feels jaded.She returns to the villa to find Julie thinking that Sarah is her mother, though she finally accepts that she is not.She uses earplugs to allow her to sleep during Julie's noisy nighttime adventures, although even then she has a voyeuristic fascination with them.There is no explanation for this strange disparity, but it could mean that the entire vacation was fabricated in Sarah's head, as ideas for her crime novel