As folk singers from Tamil Nadu respond to one another's prompts and ideas, the songs are coaxed into being, occupying a space between memory and imagination. Many of them express longing for a distant homeland as they reckon with their present land of Malaya. 

By bringing together deep knowledge of Tamil folksong traditions with diasporic memory, Coolie's Chorus enacted a homecoming, not to recover what was lost, but to carry forward their voices as a missive of their experience.