It is a well-known fact that many Koreans emigrated to Japan and China during the Japanese colonial rule. However, it is relatively less known that around 3,000 Koreans immigrated to Taiwan during the same period and some chose to remain even after the liberation from Japan. Tales of the Lane is about the stories of women who have been living in Taiwan since. The first thing that catches the eye in this film is the old stories told by women who now have become 'grandmothers'. They speak Taiwanese, Japanese, and intermittently Korean and lead us to reconstruct and imagine the history we were not aware of, with their complicated stories that could not be covered in 30 minutes. When a woman tells her old story in Taiwanese while making kimchi, wearing her T-shirt that read Jesus loves me, we learn that there is 'our story' that we did not know.