'Robot Dreams' is a quirky, beautiful, heart-warming animated gem

Dog lives alone in New York City in the late '80s, living a quiet and unremarkable life with few relationships or friendships. When Dog notices an advertisement for a robot friend, he promptly orders it and forms an instant friendship that is cut short when Robot is left stranded on a beach. Over the course of a year, Robot and Dog live out separate lives as one tries to return to the other, and dreams of their lives reunited...