By his sixth summer on the route, ice cream man Walter Sloan has learned that cruelty, once tolerated, only grows louder. When a group of local children push him too far on his final day in Alton Bay, a quiet, irreversible lesson follows. What happens leaves no sirens, no official answers, and a town permanently altered. As streets are renamed and memories suppressed, Alton Bay relearns silence, restraint, and fear. Temple Street is a dark meditation on patience, vengeance, and the cost of looking away—because some lessons, once learned, never fade.