"Under the escort of caring" is the attempt of Белля from the positions to give answers for painful problems getting up before western society in 70th of the last century, when many to the pore the hidden ailments, conflicts and contradictions of the позднекапиталистического world suddenly broke through outside: at first, yet at the end of 60th, elemental and, as seemed, inexplicable "youth rebelling", and then and by the flashes of terrorism. The range of problems of novel allows to give a glance on political shocks already of almost semi-centennial remoteness in the light of common to all mankind values near to each, and exactly that is why a great deal explains in these shocks.