Why do we love cities? The answer to this important question can be found in almost every scene of Sebastián Silva’s Nasty Baby. The city the movie is set in (New York City) is big and crowded, and the multicultural community at the core of its story is generally educated, creative, and open-minded.

The film is, for sure, not on the heavy side, but a few unpleasant things do happen to its main characters—Freddy (Sebastián Silva), Mo (Tunde Adebimpe, of the rock band TV on the Radio), and Polly (Kristen Wiig). The first two are a gay couple, and the third is their close friend. The gay men are trying to have a baby with Polly. That is basically the plot of this uneasy comedy.

Freddy is an artist with very little talent, Mo is a hardworking carpenter, and Polly is employed at a clinic. There is a lot of masturbating in this film, and the scene of Polly impregnating herself with a syringe filled with sperm is really tender.

There are moments in Nasty Baby when the light streaming through a window is just too beautiful. And that is what urban life is about: those noises rising from the street, odd neighbors, the old lamp for sale, the wine bottles on a table, the laughter of visiting friends, and the squirrel in tree that gives Freddy a mean look.

Nasty Baby is the perfect movie for Seattle’s very wet and practically dayless season.