Leisure? Sleep? No comment. Instead, Marina, in her early thirties, is living the dream of an entire generation of researchers. For a million-dollar project with the UN, she and her mentor Griffin are experimenting with gorillas that are raised like humans. But should gorillas have rights too? What would the consequences be? Marina finds herself sinking deeper into her mentor's world, driven by funding. At the last moment, she decides to take action and manipulates the research results. On an island in the Red Sea, the release of the animals begins. The problem: the gorillas no longer want their freedom; some become depressed; soon, there’s the first death. The UN is putting pressure on them. Her career, Griffin, everything is on the line. And Marina realizes that she is fighting much less for the freedom of the gorillas than for her own. "Release" is a bold literary debut.