It was just after dinner and on one of the news channels the murder was re-enacted . . . '
The Temple-goers tells the story of two young men from very different sides of the tracks: one cast adrift in a world of fashion parties, media moguls and designer labels, the other who reveals to him the city's hidden and squalid underbelly. But when a body is found floating in the canal and one of them is accused of the murder, some deeply unsettling truths begin to emerge, testing their friendship and exposing the dark and troubled heart of the city in which they live . . .