"LIVING ON YOUR FEET"' explores the personality of Cipriano Mera, and the ideals and feats of an era that turned his life into one great adventure, and made him the privileged protagonist of an intense journey through history in pursuit of utopia. It is the life of a bricklayer who commanded the 4th army corps during the Spanish Civil War and who defeated Mussolini's generals. It is the story of a free man who refused to die on his feet or live on his knees.