Congeries

"Their (the abandoned children of Nishi-Sugamo) tale is a rich, awful congeries of primal and distinctly modern fears, from the universal childhood fantasy of parental abandonment to the more grown-up suspicion that big cities are places of cruel isolation and indifference."
[NY Times movie review]

NOUN: A collection; an aggregation (used with a sing. verb)
From Latin, congerere, to heap up.
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