Television · 1-Hour Procedural Drama

Noah's ARC

Procedural Drama · Network / Streaming

📍 Detroit / Chicago · Present day

Noah Keifer built Adoption Resource Consultants to find the 25,000 children who age out of US foster care every year with no family and no one looking for them. He built it because he’s been looking for his own autistic brother — sent away when Noah was ten — for thirty years. Every child he places is, in some way, his brother.

Law & Order The Fosters

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"Of the 250,000 children that enter the U.S. foster care system each year, as many as 10% of them will enter into long-term foster care, with little or no hope of being adopted before they age out at seventeen. Every year, 25,000 lost children. Permanent wards of the state."

About This Series

Every year, 25,000 children age out of the U.S. foster care system with no family, no placement, and no one looking for them. NOAH KEIFER built Adoption Resource Consultants — ARC — to find them. One part social welfare agency, one part detective operation, ARC leaves no stone unturned: searching birth records, interviewing children, and tracking down distant relatives who may not even know these kids exist. Some cases end in reunification. Many don't. Noah has built his entire life around the difference.

Noah is surly, impatient, and the most mission-driven person his staff has ever encountered. His secret: an autistic brother sent away when Noah was ten, never found. Every child he places is, in some way, his brother. Beside him is ALEXIS, the lead social worker who softens every blow Noah delivers. GABBY HAYES, the detective who left the sex crimes unit to find the good guys for a change. NKENGE, 25, who aged out of the system herself and came back to save the kids she left behind. And GENE — thirteen years old, beloved by the entire staff, the case that keeps not working out.

Each episode opens with a child's case file read aloud by a dispassionate court clerk — name, date of birth, reason for removal — while we watch the moment that tore their family apart. Noah's ARC is a procedural about what happens after that gavel comes down. Law & Order meets The Fosters — with real stakes, real kids, and a team that refuses to give up on either.

The Characters

Noah Keifer

Protagonist · 40s

Jewish, single, ex-state social worker, family money. Surly, short fuse, total heart. Has an autistic brother sent away at ten that he's never stopped looking for.

Alexis St. Michael

Lead Social Worker · 30s

The buffer between Noah and everyone else. Her name means "defender." Her patron saint handles impossible causes.

Gabby Hayes

Lead Detective · 40s

Left the sex crimes unit. Secretly dating Wilson J. Stone, which complicates everything.

Nkenge Obidawa

Case Worker · 25

Aged out of foster care at 16. Raised herself, went to college, came back. The rarest kind of person on the team.

Gene White

Recurring · Age 13

Beloved by the staff. The case that keeps not working out. Eventually Noah takes him in.

Wilson J. Stone

Deputy Director of CPS · 55

Butts heads with Noah. Goes the extra mile when it counts.

Theme

"Saving the innocent from the consequences of evil."

Why It Sells

Noah’s personal wound (the missing brother) gives the procedural a serialized emotional engine that pure case-of-the-week shows lack
The 25,000 statistic is real and devastating — socially resonant premise that networks and streamers actively seek
One-part social welfare agency, one-part detective operation: the procedural mechanics are built in and distinctive
Diverse ensemble with a character who aged out of the system herself — authentic representation at the core of the team

Series Details

Format: Television — 1-Hour Procedural Drama

Target: Network TV / Streaming

Setting: Detroit / Chicago / Brooklyn (TBD)

Comps: Law & Order · The Fosters

Status: Pilot Script — First Draft

ARC stands for: Adoption Resource Consultants

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