Original sentence: The film consists of a number of connected scenes: five gatherings of a group of bourgeois friends, and four dreams that are dreamt by different characters: young French soldiers, a police chief, the bourgeois husbands.While none of the women wake up from dreams, several are dreams within dreams, complicating the matter
Edited sentence: The film consists of a number of connected scenes: five gatherings of a group of bourgeois friends, and four dreams that are dreamt by different characters