That night, Susan and her husband throw a party in their home. The first page is Tony Hastings (Jake Gyllenhaal) packing up his car for a road trip with his daughter. Susan begins to read the book which is dedicated to Susan. artists so when people come over, they'll think they're ahead of the curve and not financially broke. She tells him she'll just start buying work from new L.A. He changes the subject to tell Susan that he must go to New York that weekend to solidify a business deal. Hutton says, "I didn't know Edward was a writer." She laughs at this, and says that Edward was writing when I met you before the divorce. She specifies 19 and explains that she called Edward but he hung up on her. Hutton comments that she hasn't talked to Edward in almost 20 years. He asks about the manuscript so she says it's from Edward. She answers that she wasn't asleep until 4:00 AM (hinting that she knows he is lying). He then claims he didn't get home until 1:00 AM and didn't want to wake her. ![]() She ignores his words and insists it was just a short show. He answers that he was working and that it was far away. She tells him that she wanted him to come to her show. The next morning, Hutton, her husband (Armie Hammer) joins her in the kitchen. She replies that she prefers to be alone (hinting she plans to read the book.) That night, she can't sleep and takes pills. Her head of security asks who should work for the weekend shift. He will be in Los Angeles and wants to meet. It is dedicated to her and she reads that she inspired it. She gets a package from Edward Sheffield, her ex-husband and sees that it is a manuscript of his new book. ![]() She has servants and security staff, which shows her great wealth. Susan (Amy Adams), the gallery curator, drives home to her multi-million dollar estate overlooking the glimmering lights of Los Angeles. The same obese women are on display in the art gallery. She also cannot help but wonder how much of the story is based on them and if it means anything about their future. As Susan reads the manuscript while she is on her own with Hutton out of town, she cannot help but think back to the course of her and Edward's relationship, and in the process if she ended up turning into a more modern version of her mother, which would have been her worst nightmare. The family does befall violence in the process of the encounter. The story is a disturbing one of a family driving in the middle of the night through west Texas, they who end up being terrorized by three men in another car. The attached note states that this novel is different than anything that he has ever written, was inspired by her, that she will be the first person to read it and he will be in town until mid next week if she wants to meet to discuss it being that she was his sounding board on such matters when they were married. In the mail, she receives a manuscript for a novel from still unmarried Edward, who she has not seen in nineteen years since their divorce. She ended up losing faith in his writing ability, which made her feel unstable in their life. ![]() ![]() Despite loving him, who she always considered a sensitive man, she divorced her first husband, aspiring writer Edward Sheffield, because she no longer believed in his vision of their marriage, where he worked at a bookstore while he wrote in his personal time. Most of their issues stem around his business problems, with she now also suspecting infidelity on his part. Susan Morrow, the owner/curator of her own high end modern art gallery in Los Angeles, is facing strains in her marriage to her second husband, high powered and suave businessman Hutton Morrow.
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