In Search of Receptionists of the Genetic Salon is a short fiction film within the Genetic Salon series. Set between a bar in Oslo and the speculative world of Genetic Salon, the film follows an unemployed gambler, played by Helene Bergsholm, who is attempting to quit her addiction. Her story unfolds through countless wins and losses on a dancing machine. When she finally wins the game, she accidentally enters Genetic Salon, a beauty company that offers high-quality genetic modifications to its customers.

The film also follows one of the receptionists working inside this future genetic engineering salon. She is suspected of selling customers who have suffered memory loss after using genetic beauty services to black market butchers. Through this darkly absurd premise, the film connects addiction, beauty, risk, memory, and bodily transformation.

In the world of Genetic Salon, self-improvement is not simply a personal choice, but part of a larger economy of desire and exploitation. The dancing machine becomes a gateway between gambling and genetic modification: both promise the possibility of winning, escaping, or becoming someone else, while also producing new forms of dependency. The customer who enters the salon may be seeking transformation, but the transformed body also becomes vulnerable to being owned, traded, or disappeared.

In Search of Receptionists of the Genetic Salon asks what happens when the desire to change oneself becomes a service industry. If memory can be lost, the body redesigned, and identity treated as material, who is responsible for what remains? The film imagines Genetic Salon not only as a futuristic beauty company, but as a system where luck, addiction, care, and violence become difficult to separate.