Indian Porter Corps open theatre at Kut at the Imperial War Museum Archives depicts three dancing figures shrouded in white, dancing for a group of men seated around them in an open field. A Sergeant or officer stands with a cane, in the upper right hand corner of the frame. The performers, and the majority of the men, are porters – members of the Indian Labour Corps, who form an important part of the narrative. In Three Shadows (of care, rage, and indifference), these dancing figures in white have been isolated and animated to render them into ghostly spinning spectres.

This is in keeping with the fragments found in letters from the battlefields by Indian soldiers and non-combatants referring to spectres and a sound recording of an Indian prisoner of war in a camp in Germany speaking about ghosts emanating from the battlefields.