Animator Signe Baumane’s mixed-media documentary My Love Affair With Marriage is as cheeky as its title suggests. Telling the story of womanhood through musical numbers and neurochemistry, this Latvian film is both a fun and unflinching look at the journey from adolescence to adulthood.

My Love Affair With Marriage is broken up into three chapters:  inception, implementation, and reconsideration. Drawn in a style similar to one of my favorite books as a kid (Strega Nona), the film tells the story of Zelma as she figures out what it means to be a woman and come of age surrounded by unspoken gender rules and conformities.

A Greek choir of Latvian women acts as the devils on her shoulder as they farcically sing musical numbers like “Not a complete person without your soulmate” or “Ignorance is a girl’s bliss.” The older Zelma gets, the more she is confronted with the reality of being a woman. From period stains on her bed sheets to failed marriages, Zelma’s journey comes with many bumps in the road.

To articulate why Zelma acts the way she does (biologically speaking), Signe Baumane incorporates “School House Rock” style education through animation. Throughout the film, we’re given a detailed diagram that explains what parts of her brain are controlling her decisions, which body parts are activated during puberty, and more. Acting as a semi-autobiographical musical exploration of love, sex, romance, gender–and yes, the complications of marriage–My Love Affair With Marriage is a sophisticated cartoon that all grown-ups can enjoy.