Between 1838 and 1920, over half a million Indians or ‘coolies’ were indentured in the British Caribbean. Their long and arduous journeys across Indian and Atlantic Oceans are part of the story of the ‘coolie odyssey,’ which captures the utterly dehumanizing experience of indentureship. This artwork is inspired by Mahadai Das’ ancestor poem of the same name, yet it re-stages the odyssey story to provoke questions about the place of sexuality in the indentureship experience, and more so, the existence of same-sex erotic/intimate relations on ‘coolie’ ships as a way of surviving the violence of ‘shipment’.