Advent prompts the question, What does it all mean?

As she watched from her favorite chair, Alice kept on looking from the TV to the [Advent] calendar and back again. Was this all it was about? Plastic presents and plastic food with plastic cards to pay for it all. She looked again at the door at the very centre. What would be there? What was at the centre of it all? For the first time, something inside woke up and started asking questions. Just what did it all mean?- Steven Croft from The Advent Calendar