Motherhood — the prospect of motherhood, too, really — is complex. (Duh.) We still don’t talk about that often enough. Women who generally dislike kids can be wonderful mothers. Women who enjoy children can be ambivalent about having kids of their own. Sometimes, even if they’re of the “right” age and have a stable partner and income and the biological clock keeps ticking and society keeps pressuring them to do so, women are still unsure about the whole motherhood thing. Sometimes women who already have children are still unsure about the whole motherhood thing. Lots of women, mothers or not, get annoyed when they’re subjected to endless pictures of other people’s kids.

“Saint Frances,” starring and written by Kelly O’Sullivan, isn’t afraid to dive deep into the many different aspects of maturity, pregnancy, and motherhood, especially the details culture tends to gloss over. In other words, there’s a lot of blood in this movie, menstrual and otherwise. Get over it.

Bridget (O’Sullivan) is 34 and in a rut, although she’s not particularly unhappy. She takes a job as a nanny to young Frances (Ramona Edith-Williams), the precocious child of Maya (Charin Alvarez) and Annie (Lily Mojekwu). Around the same time, Bridget unexpectedly gets pregnant and undergoes a medical abortion. Along the way, she becomes closer with Frances and Maya, goes through several romantic adventures, and halfheartedly tries to figure out what she wants from adult life. Like many women, she goes back and forth about motherhood as a concept, and whether it’s for her. She knows she’s not ready to be a mom right now, but maybe someday?

“Saint Frances” presents comedy and drama in equal measure, mostly by depicting uncomfortable truths about womanhood and motherhood. (At one point, Bridget’s mom goes into graphic detail about her own postpartum depression, for example. It’s glorious.) The SXSW award winner, as they say, isn’t afraid to “go there,” and it’s all the better for that.

“Saint Frances” is now available on VOD.