Editing Everytime (section)

===Synopsis===
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The video begins with an aerial shot of [[Las Vegas]], showing the [[Palms Casino Resort]] and continues with a shot of a marquee hotel that reads "''Britney Spears Live from [[Miami]]'' [[The Onyx Hotel Tour]] Las Vegas", with a picture of Spears holding a leather strap and referencing her [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] concert special from Miami. Christian author Eva Marie Everson compared the image to "[[Madonna]] doing her own impersonation of [[Marilyn Monroe]]".<ref name="everson">{{harvnb|Everson|2006|p=39}}</ref> Spears and her boyfriend (played by [[Stephen Dorff]]) arrive at the hotel inside a limousine.<ref name="everson"/><ref name=vegas>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1569081/britney-spears-las-vegas-affair-from-losing-her-shirt-to-launching-a-comeback/|title=Britney Spears' Las Vegas Affair: From Losing Her Shirt To Launching A Comeback|date=September 7, 2007|access-date=April 28, 2010|last=Vineyard|first=Jennifer|website=MTV|archive-date=October 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001132630/http://www.mtv.com/news/1569081/britney-spears-las-vegas-affair-from-losing-her-shirt-to-launching-a-comeback/|url-status=dead}}</ref> They sit apart from each other, staring out separate windows.<ref name="everson"/> Spears wears a [[Birmingham Barons]] cap in these scenes.<ref name=barons>{{cite news|url=http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3025870&l_id=&t_id=|title=Birmingham Barons go Hollywood|date=April 22, 2004|access-date=May 2, 2010|website=OurSports Central|archive-date=June 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171438/http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3025870&l_id=&t_id=|url-status=live}}</ref> The boyfriend is talking on his cell phone, and when she attempts to get his attention, he puts his index finger up indicating he is unable to shift his attention to her at that moment. The entrance is full of fans and [[paparazzi]] taking pictures.<ref name="everson"/> When they leave the car, fans and paparazzi alike act in an extreme way and fights break out in the crowd. While her bodyguards try to protect her, her boyfriend throws magazines at the paparazzi.<ref name=puzzling/> [[Stephanie Zacharek]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' compared the shots of the paparazzi with the Jews in the film ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' (2004).<ref name=nytmv>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/arts/music-music-video-britney-has-a-bad-dream-for-our-sins.html|title=Music: Music Video; Britney Has a Bad Dream for Our Sins|date=April 25, 2004|access-date=April 28, 2010|last=Zacharek|first=Stephanie|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-date=November 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114023304/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/arts/music-music-video-britney-has-a-bad-dream-for-our-sins.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During this scene, she gets hit in the head with a camera, and unknowingly gets a wound on her head, but keeps walking.

Inside their hotel room, Spears and her boyfriend start shouting at each other. When he tries to make amends and get close to her, she brushes off his attempts and walks away. Her boyfriend gets mad and then throws a vase at the wall while Spears goes into the bathroom, hurling a drink at the mirror. She begins to fill the bathtub and remove her clothes. After this, the video includes intercut scenes of a close-up of Spears singing in a white coat in front of a bright white light.<ref name=puzzling/> As she lies in the bathtub, a [[Red string (Kabbalah)|red string]], a custom associated with [[Kabbalah]], is seen on her wrist. She touches her head and looks at her hand, realizing she is bleeding from the wound. Writer Jennifer Vineyard of MTV News speculated the blood in her hand is [[stigmata]], but also indicates she did not know where the blood was coming from, meaning Vineyard may have missed the camera hitting Spears' head and that this is a misinterpretation.<ref name=reincarnation/><ref name=vegas/> She loses consciousness in the bathtub and drowns.<ref name=reincarnation/> Shortly after, her boyfriend finds her and tries to resuscitate her.<ref name=puzzling/> Meanwhile, it is revealed that in the close-up scenes Spears is actually inside a hospital hallway. The video continues with scenes of her being carried into an ambulance and surrounded by photographers, as well as scenes of her being resuscitated by doctors in a hospital bed.<ref name="everson"/> The ghost of Spears in a white shirt watches herself in the bed and walks into the next room, where a baby girl is born. Spears is then seen running away from the camera into the light. The music video ends with her rising from under the water, resting her head and smiling, suggesting the whole scene of her death was a dream or a morbid fantasy.<ref name=reincarnation/>