Joao de Deus spends his days quietly. He divides his time between his job at the Paradise Ice Cream Parlour where, to everyone's satisfaction and delight, he not only carries his duties as manager, but also invents the house-specialty, the renowned "Paradise" ice-cream; and his home, where he invariably spends his free time alone, either doing the housework or lovingly going through his collection of female, pubic hairs in a treasured album which he calls his Book of Thoughts...