The plot follows the life of a fruit-peddler, living in 1950s West Germany, who is driven over the edge by an uncaring society.
Goulding's main thesis in the work is that crimes committed against native Indians in Canada are ignored by an uncaring society at large.
He removed the few restraints an uncaring society and church had put on Mariu.
She referred to prisoners as 'Innocents, the meat in the ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful State'.
We are becoming a very uncaring society.
I see my job as a kind of revenge against an uncaring society.
We have become such an uncaring society, and since we now turn a blind eye to suffering, nature has turned a blind eye to us.
The romantic outsider is replaced by atomistic narrators in uncaring society.
They were, by the standards of an uncaring society, criminals, although they wouldn't have thought of themselves as such and couldn't even spell words like 'nefarious'.
Drugs, alcohol, mental illness, post-Vietnam stress, a failing farm economy and an uncaring society are rolled up as one.