‘House of Sharing’ located in Hyehwadong, Seoul, was for living comfort women who were forced to be sex slaves by the Japanese army during the 2nd World War to live together. Early residents of the ‘House of Sharing’, Kang Deok-kyung, Kim Soon-deok, Park Doo-ri, Park Ok-ryun, Lee Yong-nyeo, and Son Pahn-im, are now gone. When we revisited the ‘House of Sharing’ in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, in 2013, only an epitaph was left.

But the memories spoken by these women are recorded by cameras. Their lives get closer to us in a simple way, not in a exaggerated way. These ordniary and trivial days are intertwined with terrible victim memories. Memories stuck as deep wounds are revealed in the paintings these women drew.

The comfort women issue was brought up and then Kono statemetns, funding act were followed. This order of acts is repeated all the same way after 20 years later. One thing is different which is Korean goverment made ‘agreement’ on the comfort women issue with Japanese government without victim’s agreement.

When those women gathered in a room saying “when we say ‘apologize, investigate’, they can’t handle this with money,’, the film strongly insists this comforting women issue is not over at all. Kang Deok-kyung’s last statement on a sickbed lingers long. “We fight to the last.” [Ahn Hae-ryong]​