Ever see that film? With Audrey Tautou.
One day her father goes out to his garden and discovers that his beloved garden gnome has disappeared.
Several weeks later he gets a postcard with a picture of the garden gnome in Japan. Then he gets another postcard with a picture of the garden gnome in Mexico. Then he gets a postcard with a local cancellation stamp but the card is written in Spanish. Then he gets a postcard with a picture of the garden gnome in China. In five years he'll probably get a postcard with a picture of the garden gnome in Vietnam or India.
That's what this is all about.
Unfortunately that gnome with never return to his garden.