Meet Crystal Scott, 43, her husband, David, and Crystal's charismatic new millionaire employer as Crystal embarks on a journey that takes her far from her daily routine of carpools and cupckaes into the deep end of adultery. Set in a university town in Northern California, Staying Afloat is more than a story about a bored housewife's dalliance with her boss. It's an exploration of the ways sex and love can cause a perfectly sane woman to lose her moral compass, and the impossibility of escaping one's destiny.