Benny is a time traveler.
Usnavi invests in Benny, gets him some business classes, Benny starts a company that eventually develops Time Travel, and he is accidentally sent back in time to the early 90s, where he meets a girl named Mimi who reminds him of his lost Nina, and he becomes Benny in RENT.- Then Usnavi goes looking for him and they both end up in the late 18th century in order to found America.
