​​​​​​​Susan Evans Grove

An insurance claim mix up leaves the wealthy Oliva de Harlin with the realization no amount of money is enough to protect her from her past. 

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In “Enough isn't Enough” La Treque plays Olivia de Harlin, a wealthy woman whose life unravels after an insurance claim mix up brings her past crashing into her carefully curated present. No one in de Harlin’s life knows she grew up in complete poverty with an abusive mother and an absent father. When she was just 16 years old she moved away from her past fabricating a charmed childhood of boarding school and ski vacations. For years she has stuck to the script that her father, a diplomat, and her charitable mother live in South Africa and have been unable to make her college graduation, her wedding, and the birth of her children. Eventually people stop asking and she truly begins to believe her own lies until a lawyer shows up at her door announcing that her father has died and left her a baby grand piano.

Since the man has rented a truck to deliver the piano he is not inclined to go away when she says she wants nothing to do with it. His constant presence around the house begins to arouse suspicion in her husband. De Harlin is unable to tell him the truth about her past nor explain the years of lying to him so she tries to take her own life. Fortunately she fails and the story ends with the couple sitting at the piano playing a duet. The last words of the film are whispered lovingly by the husband are “I love you for who you are, not where you came from.”...fade to happy marital bliss.

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This is perhaps Elva La Treque’s darkest role and some say a premonition of things to come for La Treque.